Master watchmaker George Daniels modified this Datejust.

In addition to marking the close of the bloodiest conflict in human history, 1945 also signified 40 years since the founding of Hans Wilsdorf’s famous watch company. To celebrate four decades of ...

Like the Fender Stratocaster and the Porsche 911, the Rolex Datejust was so elegantly conceived and executed during the mid-20th Century that it has remained in production to this day, more or less in ...

The Rolex Datejust is one of the most iconic and, arguably, greatest watches of all time. It’s not just a single watch, either, with vintage examples from its decades-long history offering interesting ...

It’s not hard to see what makes the new Rolex Datejust 36 stand out—even though it’s almost camoflaged. The focal point of the updated classic from the Crown is a sunburst dial emblazoned with a ...

The most expensive Rolex Datejust ever sold at auction was a Reference 6305 from 1955 that once belonged to Konrad Adenauer, the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. While Adenauer, ...

Rolex’s Datejust is one of the Crown's lower-key models, favoured by icons of laid-back cool such as Harrison Ford and Zac Efron, yet it has long served as an opportunity for the marque to indulge its ...

When Rolex released its first Datejust model in 1945, it was the first wristwatch to include the functionality to automatically update the display of the day of the month at midnight. It was also ...

Although traditionally a repository for analog skills and long-established craftsmanship, today’s luxury watch industry has developed the canny capacity to source high-tech innovations from sectors ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By the close of the Second World War, Rolex had been producing its famous waterproof Oyster case for close to 20 years, and its ...